21 – The following is the proceeding to which Mr. Clay referred:

Resolved, by the general assembly of Maryland, that the

senators and representatives from this state in congress,

be requested to use their utmost endeavors, in the

admission of the state of Missouri into the union, to

prevent the prohibition of slavery from being required

of that state as a condition of its admission.

It passed, January, 1820, in the affirmative. Among the

names of those in the negative, is that of Mr. Taney.